Hi all! I'm looking to do a rapid sampling of a very broad area in some estuaries along the Atlantic coast, with the goal of describing early juvenile fishes habitat relationships to the salt marsh in an area that has not been previously well described. I'm going to use a mixed-gear method to try and capture early juvenile fishes (red drum, spotted seatrout, and blue crab etc.) and one of the methods I'm considering are minnow traps. Does anyone have recommendations of what I could use as bait in these traps? The tidal energy will be pretty significant. I'm considering lights, hot dogs, bread, nothing...Anyone have any recommendations? I will be going out this weekend to test out some methods.
Collecting Juvenile Estuary Fishes
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, Jan 29 2013 10:09 AM
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Posted 29 January 2013 - 11:13 AM
I seem to remember a neat project that Jan Hoover presented at the NANFA convention several years ago that used "glow sticks" and he had great success with juvenile fishes.
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